settlement
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
settlement/ˈsetlmənt/
▶noun
- 1 the action or process of settling.
- 2 an official agreement intended to resolve a dispute or conflict.
- 3 a place where people establish a community.
- 4 Law an arrangement whereby property passes to a person or succession of people as dictated by the settlor.
'settlement' also found in these Oxford entries:
accommodation
- acquittance
- arrangement
- Beth Din
- bill of rights
- colony
- commune
- determination
- disaffirm
- dispositive
- dun
- extrajudicial
- found
- founder
- Herrnhuter
- homestead
- kibbutz
- kitchen midden
- occupy
- Onondaga
- out-of-court
- pending
- pueblo
- rancheria
- reckoning
- settle
- settlor
- Skraeling
- trading post
- viatical settlement
